Sherlock Holmes would never have stood for this: newly discovered documents show that the Staffordshire police fabricated evidence to try to discredit Arthur Conan Doyle's investigation into the curious case of George Edalji, a Birmingham solicitor accused of maiming horses and sending poison-pen letters at the turn of the 20th century. Daily book trade headlines and breaking publishing news by email - just 3 a month.
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HOUDINI AND DOYLE follows "two of the great characters of the twentieth century -- Harry Houdini, master magician, escape artists and paranormal debunker -- and Arthur CONAN Doyle, creator of the greatest detective of all time, and a paranormal aficionado" who "grudgingly join forces to investigate crimes with a supernatural slant. Although they're both rich, famous, and brilliant, they're the original odd couple -- HOUDINI believing in nothing, Doyle in everything."
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Curator Timothy Long is silhouetted as he poses for photographers with a Sherlock Holmes style pipe and deerstalker hat beside an internal window forming part of the exhibition 'Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Never Lived and Will Never Die' at the Museum of London. The story goes like this: According to the Guardian , Doyle was solicited for help from a man named George Edalji.
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Arthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini is headed to the small screen in the U.S., U.K. and Canada. I've learned that Sony Pictures TV has sold the 10-episode series to Fox , U.K.'s ITV and Canada's Shaw Media.
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... as P.G. Wodehouse, William Boyd as Ian Fleming, Sophie Hannah as Agatha Christie, Anthony Horowitz as Arthur Conan Doyle, and more. 'When you read Anthony Horowitz' new James Bond novel in September, you will think it is a lost Ian Fleming', tweets ...
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A syringe of poison the Kray twins planned to use to intimidate a witness and three gallstones found in the drain of an acid bath murderer will be seen by the public for the first time when the Met Police's crime artefacts are put on display. The Black Museum in room 101 of Scotland Yard, the headquarters of London's Metropolitan Police, has until now only been open to officers and invited guests, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini.
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... its enterprise to include not only Manufacture On Demand titles (a restored 1925 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's THE LOST WORLD is there!), but is expanding its streaming selection as well. Some of those Cinerama titles I mentioned above are ...
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... and which is now being costed would pass. There is a statue of Sherlock Holmes in tribute to creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who was born in Picardy Place already there. Festival Square was also in the running, as were other major new public spaces ...
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Like something out of one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's efforts to prove a man innocent so angered the local constable that he created an elaborate ruse to trick the famed author. Like something out of one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's efforts to prove a man innocent so angered the local constable that he created an elaborate ruse to trick the famed author.
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... a medicine he was forced to drink. The catch, though, is that Conan, whose name comes from mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle, does not exist and is the main character of the popular Japanese serial comic and animation, "Detective Conan," which has a ...
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Ken Ludwig's new comedy is a farcical treatment of the most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles . As we know from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself, from Benedict Cumberbatch's fast-talking reincarnation of the famous detective in the BBC's Sherlock , and from Jonny Lee Miller's intense, neurotic portrayal in CBS's Elementary , the whole point of Sherlock Holmes is that he is super smart.
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... a medicine he was forced to drink. The catch, though, is that Conan, whose name comes from mystery writer Arthur Conan Doyle, does not exist and is the main character of the popular Japanese serial comic and animation, "Meitantei Conan (Detective ...
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... did surveillance for Holmes. Hobbs displayed his familiarity with Holmes and the detective's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, as he strolled recently through the Sherlock Holmes exhibition at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science. "There are only 36 or ...
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CHICAGO While the leap from 2008 blockbuster film " Iron Man " to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's titular mega sleuth wouldn't seem the most logical next move for "A"-lister Robert Downey Jr., he will indeed play perhaps the most famed detective in literary history: Sherlock Holmes . Guy Ritchie will direct the film for Warner Bros.
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Mr. Holmes , the first movie to depict an ageing, retired version of Arthur Conan Doyle's famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes, recently released its first trailer. Ian McKellen plays the title role, following in the footsteps of scores of actors to have brought their signature touches to the famous British character.
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... roles as important as what's happening on stage. What: "The Hound of the Baskervilles," adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by Steven Canny and John Nicholson for Peepolykus When: Champagne opening night is 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 12 (special ...
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... Albert Carter, whose mother was a clairvoyant who claimed to communicate with, among other ghosts, Arthur Conan Doyle. But keeping things on the fun side has been key to the toy's appeal. Alabe Crafts consulted with a psychologist to determine the ...
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"X-Men: Days of Future Past" actor Ian McKellen portrays the famous detective in the new movie, which finds Sherlock retired. He tends bees as described in author Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories and appears to be having problems with his memory - the trailer shows him writing the name of his housekeeper's son, with whom he is close, on his shirtsleeve so as not to forget it.
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... the Russian novel Crime and Punishment, written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and inspired by the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The graphics aspect is very well designed. It has the best graphics of the saga thanks to the use of the Unreal Engine 3 . ...
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